By the Author of the Martian Chronicles and Fahrenheit 451. He did not want to be the father of a small blue pyramid. Peter Horn hadn't planned it that way at all. Neither he nor his wife imagined that such a thing could happen to them. They had talked quietly for days about the birth of their coming child they had eaten normal foods slept a great deal taken in a few shows and when it was time for her to fly in the helicopter to the hospital her husband Peter Horn laughed and kissed her.